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A man who was burned in a South Side apartment fire early Saturday died of his injuries that night.

COLUMBUS Man severely burned in apartment fire dies

A man who was burned in a South Side apartment fire early Saturday died of his injuries that night.

Franklin County Coroner Jan Gorniak identified the man as Nasir Dooley, 32. He died at 11 p.m. in the burn unit at Ohio State University Medical Center, she said.

He had second- and third-degree burns over 97 percent of his body when a friend pulled him from his apartment at 2199 Winslow Dr., Battalion Chief David Whiting said.

The fire was accidental and began on the kitchen stove about 4:30 a.m., Whiting said. Damage was largely contained to the dead man's apartment and estimated at $11,000.

-- Spencer Hunt shunt@dispatch.com

DAYTON Wright brothers' home included in national park

A house designed by the Wright brothers in the early 1900s after their historic first flight will become part of the National Park Service.

President Barack Obama is expected to sign a bill today that will add Hawthorn Hill to the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. Hawthorn Hill, in Oakwood, was designed by Wilbur and Orville Wright and was the family's home until 1948.

The bill also will add several Wright Co. factory buildings to the park service. The buildings were the first in the United States designed and built to manufacture airplanes.

-- Dayton Daily News via AP

BOWLING GREEN Bowling Green students OK $60 fee for arena

Students at Bowling Green State University have voted to approve a fee to help build a new campus arena.

In an online vote, 2,630 undergraduates cast ballots in favor of the $60-per-semester fee and 1,182 opposed it. The school said Saturday that about 28 percent of the eligible student population voted.

Public universities must get an OK from the Ohio Board of Regents before they can raise fees, and a show of student support is a requirement for that approval. Collection of the new student fee wouldn't begin until the $36 million arena was finished in 2011.

The proposed 4,700-seat arena would replace Anderson Arena as home for basketball and volleyball games and would also be used for other events.

-- The Blade via AP

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